Catholic Church

By Philip Kosloski, Aleteia - We humans love to talk and fill our world with noise. However, God speaks rarely and even during the incarnation, Jesus’s life was spent primarily in silence. All we know about Jesus comes from the beginning of his life and his end, with virtually nothing known about the 30 years he lived in Nazareth. Nineteenth-century writer Frederick Charles Woodhouse reflects on this reality in his Manual for Lent and ponders the silence of God.

By Charlie Specht, WKBW - The Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, which is facing nearly 250 lawsuits involving clergy sexual abuse, has declared bankruptcy… Aside from the obvious financial implications, the diocese's formal Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing means that many of the victims of clergy sexual abuse may not anytime soon get the answers that have long been hidden in secret diocesan archives regarding pedophile priests… But there is still a chance that those hidden files could be forced as part of a bankruptcy settlement, as has happened in other dioceses.

Press Office of the Polish Bishops' Conference - The first Friday of Lent marks in the Church in Poland a Day of Prayer and Penance for the sins of sexual abuse of minors. This initiative of the Polish Bishops' Conference is a response to the Holy Father's appeal encouraging the whole community of the People of God to pray and to fast in order to awaken our consciences… "Standing together for the prayer of reparation, we learn the truth about the community of the Church in which no suffering or sin is a private matter. We are one organism for better or worse. When one person suffers, others suffer together, and the sin of each of us weakens the whole organism.

Fr Richard Heilman - Father Giacomo Capoverdi shares a fascinating story of his encounter with the Hermit of Loreto (the author of the Pieta Prayer Book), at the site of the Holy House of the Blessed Virgin Mary.. In this video, Father Giacomo Capoverdi shares a fascinating story of his encounter with the Hermit of Loreto (the author of the Pieta Prayer Book), at the site of the Holy House of the Blessed Virgin Mary… Father Capoverdi shares an amazing premonition this Hermit of Loreto had all the way back in the 1980s about Donald J. Trump …